St Michael & All Angels SSWWOORRDD Mildred Avenue Parish Magazine Watford ISSN 2397-2211

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Editorial Team Rob White 3. Pastoral Letter from Father Geoff Sylvia Moring Father Geoff 5. Lesley Kinch Vicki Matthews 6. 17th Watford Brownies Subscriptions Valerie Alvarez 7. From the Treasurer Diary and Rota Sylvia Moring 8. From the Mission Committee Crossword Peter White 9. Ann and Tim Eccleshall

Distribution 10. Diary of Events Dennis Beach Duncan Turton 12. Sung Eucharist Duty List Sylvia Moring 13. Can you Knit a Square? Cover Illustration Martin Matthews 16. Derek the Cleric

Contributors 17. Edward Bouverie Pusey Maggie Benoy Father Geoff 19. Calendar of Feasts & Holy Days Martin Heath Vicki Matthews Sylvia Moring Marilyn Tozer Duncan Turton Deadline for Elizabeth Watkin October edition of SWORD

Printers DPD Printing Ltd Sunday 22nd September 2019 35 Market Street Watford WD18 0PN Please submit copy or email to: [email protected] A Pastoral Letter

Dear Friends,

By the 1st September I shall be back on duty, but I still have some experiences to tell you about from my adventures since my last letter. In total, over the three months of my Extended Study Leave, I have driven just over 5000 miles, taken 1900 photos, and visited 168 sites (Churches, Abbeys, Museums, Standing Stones, and various others). I left you when I was about to set off south. A couple of days staying in Falkirk enabled me to see Culross Abbey with connections to St Serf and St Kentigern, Dunfermline Abbey, with Robert the Bruce’s grave, Torphichen Preceptory, a rare survival of the Knights Hospitaller, Linlithgow’s amazing Parish Church, and the treasures of the National Museum of Scotland.

Then back to England via Sunday Communion at Jedburgh. A stay in Newcastle enabled a visit to the Great North Museum, and some of the fascinating Churches of the Tyne Valley, including the two Churches of Bywell, about 100 yards apart, Corbridge with its Roman tower arch and fortified Vicarage, and Blanchland Abbey. I didn’t get to Hexham this time, having been in 2017. Newcastle was also a good base for Jarrow and all things Bede-connected, and Tynemouth Priory.

On to County Durham, and a day in Durham itself. The almost unaltered Saxon Church of Escomb is always a fascinating visit, as is the Church at Stanwick, sadly now redundant, but set in the middle of the Iron Age ramparts of the Brigantian Capital. The lovely churches at Staindrop and Barnard Castle also stand out. St Hilda’s first monastery at Hartlepool has a very informative visitor centre at the Church, and very nice welcomers.

After a few days back in Watford, it was back to Derbyshire. Standing out here were the Churches at Tideswell, Bakewell, Ilam and Eyam. Eyam is the famous plague village, where the cottages of the unfortunate victims can be seen, but it also has a Celtic Cross in the Churchyard, and a Romanesque Font. Ilam Church is well worth finding, in the grounds (run by the National Trust) of Ilam Hall, with an interesting font, a surviving shrine of St Bertram, and a more recent mausoleum. There is a good tea room nearby as well! Southwell Minster has some of the most intricate Mediaeval carving I have ever seen.

SEPTEMBER 2019 Page 3 The last few days of my travels were spent in Hull. This was a good base for the Churches of Holderness, which is the very Easternmost part of East Yorkshire. The most impressive Church of Holderness is Patrington, which is breathtaking! There are several others of interest in the area. Also nearby is Beverley, which has two very impressive and interesting Mediaeval Churches, St Mary’s and Beverley Minster, which I went to on separate days.

Sunday morning Eucharist was at North Newbald, one of the most impressive Norman Churches in the North of England. One of my favourite outings was to Nunburnholme, which I had been to before, but over 20 years ago! It involves getting the key from a local homeowner, but once in, there is an Anglo Scandinavian Cross, with figures from Norse legend as well as Christian scenes.

In three letters, I haven’t been able to mention, let alone describe, most of the 168 sites I have been to over the summer, but there will be a programme of illustrated talks in due course!

Love and prayers,

Fr Geoff

Foodbank

We took 44.9 kilos of food to the food bank this morning, which they were really grateful to receive, as their shelves were nearly empty. I think this might be the most we have taken over. They send their thanks to all who donated.

Church Coffee Morning

It is proposed to hold a Coffee Morning in aid of Church Funds on Saturday, 14 September, from 10.30 am to 12 noon. There will be stalls and a raffle and your support would be most welcome.

Yours sincerely,

Norma

Page 4 SWORD Lesley

I have been trying to put into words a fitting tribute for Lesley. I am sure her friends at St Michael’s will all have different memories, so if I can I will put down some of mine.

Whilst Lesley has been at church for many years, it is perhaps only during the last few that we had more interaction. An image that will remain is going into the choir vestry during the 9.30 service to find her on the floor playing with the children in the creche, having got herself out of her wheelchair and onto the floor!

Her passion was the children and it has been lovely to share Monday toddlers with her, as Fr Geoff said in his address at the funeral, despite being in extreme pain she would be there even if it meant she had to sit there sucking on her medicated lollipops.

Despite having so many problems herself, she was always a willing, non-judgemental listener to many of us.

During a hospital visit before she was transferred to the hospice she said to me “Maggie I thought I was a goner, I’m not ready to go yet”. She wanted her party and a visit to Harry Potter to see the new exhibition and do some shopping !!

The party she achieved with the help of Elizabeth and Jane Talbot, who I have to say have been amazing friends to Lesley. What a party it was! She was still talking about it the week before she died.

She achieved her visit to Harry Potter with the help of her friend Caroline. By sheer determination.

On her birthday, as it was toddlers, Elizabeth went to Brunswick Court where she was now being cared for, and Jane face-timed her so all the children could sing her happy birthday. Not a dry eye among the adults.

And so to her last few days in hospital. It was arranged that she would never be on her own, so - thanks to Jane and her organising skills - family and friends rallied. On a personal level, I shall be forever grateful to Jane that she asked me to cover the Monday night. What an honour, to be able to give Lesley some of the care she had given me; we didn’t need to talk, just held hands. It was a long, hot, noisy night on the ward; not a calm tranquil place you would hope for. Lesley had wanted to be back at Brunswick Court or the hospice rather than on a ward, so thankfully she got her wish and (with her family and Jane and family) she passed away on Tuesday afternoon.

Thank you Lesley for your friendship love and care, may you rest in peace.

Maggie

SEPTEMBER 2019 Page 5 We have just enjoyed a brilliant Pack Holiday at Northern Heights in Elstree, with the 9th Pack. Our theme was “Superheroes”. The Sixes were The Incredibles, Teen • We will continue to maintain the fabric of our important historic building for worship & ministry. Titans and Power Puff Girls, and the leaders chose whichever Superhero name they • We will maintain our halls for use by a wide range of religious and secular groups in West Watford. fancied. • We will financially support causes that advance our religious mission. • We will offer spiritual support and comfort to those in great need through our clergy. We had some heavy rain but on the whole the weather was warm and sunny. The • We will support the Diocese of St Albans in its ministry and its work to train new clergy. mornings, once the washing up and cleaning and cooking duties were done, were spent doing craft activities. The girls made capes and masks for themselves, and also dressed their cuddly toys as Superheroes. They made Superhero pull puppets, bead bracelets and picture frames.

They did the Stage 2 Camp Skills Builder. Each Six took turns to pitch a tent, and then used it for their rest hour that day before they took it down again. The other activities were making a fire, (each Six collected materials to make a small fire in a baking tray, and then toasted marshmallows and made Smores), a game to learn about safety around campfires, and a “What do you pack for camp game”. They took turns to take items from a random pile and then had to justify their choices. Finally, they had to get ready for bed by torchlight. It was amazing how some people couldn’t find their pyjamas in the dark, even though everything had been tidy earlier in the day!

We had a campfire at the campfire circle in the woods and one evening we watched a film (Incredibles) at the Hive cinema, a beehive shaped structure also in the woods. One afternoon we went on the Ditchwalk. The ditch runs alongside the entrance lane and involves climbing over and under branches. Halfway along you come up to road level at a viewing platform where you can see right across the fields to London. We picked out the Wembley Arch but it wasn’t quite clear enough to spot the Gherkin. There was also a “Fairy walk” through a 100 year old part of the woods, where there were lots of fairy doors and villages to look out for as well as a list of natural objects to spot.

On the last afternoon we divided our time between the bouldering and traverse wall, and the zip lines, which were very popular, and finished off with a takeaway meal. Everyone went home pretty tired, but having had an exciting time.

Marilyn

Page 6 SWORD From the Treasurer

September is the month when, all being well, the Church account gets a significant uplift. Normally this is the time when our gift aid claim from HMRC is paid to us. This is not just a mere technical thing – at just over £7,000 it represents around 8% of our regular annual income.

But what is gift aid? The HMRC website puts it in plain language. ‘Donating through Gift Aid means charities and community amateur sports clubs (CASCs) can claim an extra 25p for every £1 you give. It will not cost you any extra. Charities can claim Gift Aid on most donations, but some payments do not qualify.’ What gift aid does is allow UK charities to claim back the basic rate tax already paid on donations by donors who pay UK income tax. This means St Michael’s can claim from HMRC 25p for every £1 gift-aided donation.

Ordinarily we cannot say that our tax should be used for one purpose or another. Nor can we say that we want one particular road surfaced over another. But the gift aid scheme effectively allows us to say that we want our tax payments to support our Church. One could, perhaps should, of course have quite the debate about the ethics of gift aid – particularly in this day and age of spending reductions across much of government.

Whilst not everyone is in a position that their donations can be ‘gift aided’ PCC does look to ensure that we maximise our gift aid claim. Needless to say that the annual claim is prepared by volunteers who have spent years building a detailed understanding of the HMRC process and the congregation. For their efforts PCC is grateful.

If you make donations to St Michael’s and you are a UK-resident income tax payer please do make a simple gift aid declaration to us if you have not already done so. You only need do it once. Envelopes and forms for this are available at the church. Regular giving by standing order or the envelope scheme is a very tax efficient way of giving where gift aid can be claimed and we encourage everyone to consider the option.

For those who are not taxpayers St Michaels is also able to claim 25% of all donations made in cash (not by cheque or bank transfer) up to £30 irrespective of the donor’s tax status – rest assured that we make the most of the option too!

Duncan

SEPTEMBER 2019 Page 7 From the Mission Committee

The PCC has agreed that we should again support the Bishop of St Albans Harvest Appeal which, this year, is to contribute towards Tearfund’s Light Up Tanzania project.

There will be an All Age presentation at the 9.30am Eucharist on 6th October, with a retiring collection. This will be followed by a Bring & Share lunch to which our friends from the Jacobite Syrian congregation are being invited

Imagine if, when you flicked on a light switch, nothing happened.

For many people in Tanzania, where access to electricity is scarce, households cannot function easily after dark; families struggle with everyday chores, their children suffer with poor performance in school, and, without electricity, all basic services – water, health, education – are hindered.

‘Light Up Tanzania’ seeks to bring electricity – in the form of solar panels – to around 350 households in the rural area of Singida, Tanzania. These will make a huge difference! Presently, people rely on paraffin-style (kerosene) lamps in the evenings – which have caused many serious burn injuries – and their cooking is done on firewood or charcoal, creating high levels of smoke indoors too.

Page 8 SWORD Ann and Tim Eccleshall

On 11th August we said goodbye to Ann and Tim Eccleshall after their last service at St Michael's before moving to Norfolk to live closer to their daughter, Lucy. We thank them for more than 30 years of friendship, help and support and wish them well.

Elizabeth

SEPTEMBER 2019 Page 9 DIARY OF EVENTS FOR SEPTEMBER 2019

1st SUN TRINITY 11 Holy Communion (Fr George) 8.00 am FIRST SUNDAY OF THE MONTH SUNG EUCHARIST 9.30 am (Pres: Fr Geoff) All-age presentation Evening Prayer 6.00 pm 3rd Tue Service at River Court 2.30 pm 4th Wed Finance Committee (Choir Vestry) 7.30 pm

8th SUN TRINITY 12 Holy Communion (Fr Geoff) 8.00 am SUNG EUCHARIST (Pres & Preacher: Fr Geoff) 9.30 am Children's Church in Littlebury Hall (The Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church 1-5 pm) 11th Wed Service at Home Manor 2.30 pm PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL (Choir Vestry) 7.30 pm 12th Thu Service at St Anthony's during morning 14th Sat ST MICHAEL'S OPEN FOR OPEN DAY HISTORIC CHURCHES BIKE 'N HIKE RIDE - ALL DAY COFFEE MORNING AND MINI MARKET 10.30 - 12 noon IN AID OF CHURCH FUNDS

15th SUN Trinity 13 Holy Communion (Fr George) 8.00 am SUNG EUCHARIST (Pres & Preacher: Fr Geoff) 9.30 am Children's Church in Littlebury Hall Holy Baptism 2.00 pm Evening Prayer 6.00 pm 20th Thu Coffee after the 10 am service of Holy Communion - 10 45 am in the Choir Vestry

22nd SUN TRINITY 14 Holy Communion (Fr Geoff) 8.00 am SUNG EUCHARIST (Pres & Preacher: Fr Geoff) 9.30 am Children's Church in Littlebury Hall (The Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church 1-5 pm) Evening Prayer 6.00 pm 28th Sat Talent event - More details later 7.30 pm

29th SUN ST MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS Holy Communion (Fr George) 8.00 am SUNG EUCHARIST (Pres & Preacher: Fr Geoff) 9.30 am Children's Church in Littlebury Hall Evening Prayer 6.00 pm

Advance Dates for October

6th Sun Harvest Bring & Share Lunch

Morning Prayer is said daily in the Lady Chapel (Monday to Friday) at 9.00 am.

A service of Holy Communion is held every Thursday at 10.00 am. Both this and the 8 am on Sunday morning are Order One in Traditional Language.

The Toddlers’ Group meets in Church (or Choir Vestry) every Monday from 10.00 – 11.30 am except on Bank Holidays.

Tea, Coffee & Squash are served in Church every Wednesday from 10.00 until noon. The Food Bank is open on Wednesdays from 10.00 am - 12 noon.

After the service of Holy Communion on the third Thursday of the month there is a coffee morning in the choir vestry to which everyone is invited at 10.45 am SUNG EUCHARIST DUTY LIST - SEPTEMBER 2019

1 September 2019 Deacon MDS Chalice AK, BH Intercessor TBA Lesson Readers TBA Sidespeople IW, AM Tea/Coffee Duty PH, EJ Money Counting Rota AM, VB

8 September 2019 Deacon JW Chalice PG, DD Intercessor MDS Lesson Readers SRM, PG Sidespeople JO, HM Tea/Coffee Duty BB, SM Money Counting Rota AH, VO'R

15 September 2019 Deacon VA Chalice MW AK Intercessor SDM Lesson Readers BB, IB Sidespeople PA-S, KH Tea/Coffee Rota NT, VA Money Counting Rota PC, MM

22 September 2019 Deacon MDS Chalice DD, BH Intercessor PC Lesson Readers MW, EW Sidespeople ES, VB Tea/Coffee Duty M & EW Money Counting Rota VB, ES

29 September 2019 Deacon JW Chalice AK, MW Intercessor PG Lesson Readers JH, PH Sidespeople JH, PH Tea/Coffee Duty M & VM Money Counting Rota PC, SE Can you knit a square?

Next February a group of local people will be going to Rwanda and they want to fill their cases with blankets for new born babies, as they have done in the past. The Rwandan Sisterhood Association, led by Dame Helen Hyde, organises annual group visits to Rwanda and all items collected are hand delivered so there are no middlemen. The charity was started by Rwandan refugees living in the UK but the committee members now come from many African countries. The charity was in a very deprived area in Kigali. Their projects are: 1) Mama Packs - given to women who attend the antenatal clinic. It enables the mother to deliver her baby alone in hygienic conditions if the need arises, or take the pack into hospital with her, thereby avoiding paying for the materials. 2) Development of self-sufficiency skills. The women are taught to knit by hand and also use a knitting machine. 3) Nursery/Primary School. They now have 75 pupils on the premises of a nearby church. Educational needs are provided. It costs £60 to educate a child for a year. There is also a feeding project to give breakfasts and washes to street children.

So ladies, gents, children who can do simple knitting squares if you are able, please do help by knitting some squares! Using double knitting wools, but not Aran or anything harsh please:

Leaving a longish thread cast on 40 stitches with no. 8 needles Work enough rows to make a square Cast offand again leave a longish thread. Ifyou are happy to make up a blanket you will need 4 squares across 5 squares down Otherwise please just leave your squares in the box provided or give them to me

Maybe people who come to St Michael's on Wednesdays - either as part of the Food Bank group or for our coffee mornings - would like to knit while they natter? I will put some wool oddments and some no. 8 needles, on a highish shelf in one of the cupboards in the north porch, together with an empty box or bag for finished squares. Knitting needles are hardly weapons of mass destruction but it will be prudent to keep them out of harm's way! Please add to the needles and wool if you are able.

I know Dame Helen Hyde and her group will be very grateful for anything we can produce for them so that girls, after giving birth, may leave hospital with their precious bundle wrapped in a blanket.

Many thanks to all who can help

Vicki Matthews

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ACROSS 1. Nibble (4) 3. Golf peg (3) 5. Floating mooring (4) 10. Gazelles, gnus (9) 11. Dynasty, epoch (3) 12. Female deer (3) 13. Mitigators (9) 15. Perform (3) 17. Strings on shoes (5) 19. Wickedness(9) 20. Randomly (3) 22. Shy, modest (3) 23. Jelly (3) 24. S. American country (9) 26. Whip (4) 27. Monkey (3) 28. In addition (4)

JULY CROSSWORD SOLUTION DOWN 1. Watches over & protects you (8, 5) 2. Refuse from mines (5) 4. Telepathy (abbrev.) (3) 6. Incapable (7) 7. A long time (5, 3, 5) 8. Flowery (6) 9. I---- ofWight (4) 14. Tresses (5) 16. Burial mound (7) 18. Espionage (6) 21. Vivacity (4) 22. Refrigerate (5) 25. Mind the Interval (3)

SEPTEMBER 2019 Page 15 c i r e l c e h t _ k e r e d / m o c . r e t t i w t / / : s p t t h b b o R y n A ©

Page 16 SWORD Edward Bouverie Pusey 18 September is the feast day of Edward Bouverie Pusey, Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford University, and a leading member e of the ‘catholising’ reform movement within the Church of s n e c England, known as the Oxford Movement. i L s n o

Pusey was born on 22 August 1800 at Pusey House in the village m m of Pusey in Berkshire. He was of noble lineage, being the second o C

son of the Honourable Philip Pusey and his wife, Lady Lucy a i d

Sherard. He was also the grandson of Jacob de Bouverie, the first e m i

Viscount Folkestone (though Pusey’s father, Philip, had to adopt k i

the name of ‘Pusey’ as a condition of inheriting the manorial W estates there). © Edward Bouverie Pusey Pusey's childhood was said to have been calm and self-assured but isolated. He attended Eton College in 1812 (where he had the reputation of being studious and kind as well as reserved and non-athletic) and he had matriculated as a member of Christ Church, Oxford in 1819, graduating in 1822 with a first class in classical honours. In 1823, he gained a fellowship at Oriel College, which was considered to be the most academically prestigious college in Oxford at the time, and the one that would become central to the formation of the Oxford Movement.

Pusey was from a Reformed Protestant background, and had originally intended to devote his life to the study of the Old Testament. In the Summer of 1825, he left Oxford for Germany and spent five months studying German theology there, and from 1825 until 1827 he attended the universities at Gottingen, Berlin and Bonn in order to learn Syriac, Chaldee and Arabic. Upon his return to England in 1827, the Prime Minister, Arthur Wellesley, appointed Pusey as Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Oxford, a position which included the associated canonry of Christ Church.

In 1828 (the same year in which Pusey was ordained as an Anglican priest) his father finally permitted him to marry Maria Barker, whom he had loved for many years. Pusey also published his first book – a critical history of German theology - though it received a poor reception. The work was misunderstood as a defence of German rationalism, and Pusey later withdrew it from publication.

Despite Pusey’s Protestant background, a perceived retreat from his formative Protestant theology can be dated to about this time. He came to reject what he called ‘dead orthodoxy’ and was (at the same time) embracing the realism that he found expressed in the poetry of the Romantic Poets - the same poets who had influenced John Keble when writing a series of poems to mark The Christian Year.

By the end of 1833, Pusey began sympathising with the authors of a series of books known as ‘Tracts for the Times’. These tracts marked the beginning of the Tractarian Movement and with it the Catholic revival of the Church of England. There were 90 Tracts in all, written between 1833 and 1841 at a rate of about one a month. Pusey was not, however, fully associated with the movement until the period 1835 -6, when he produced Tracts 67 – 69 on ‘Scriptural Views of Holy Baptism’. These tracts changed the character of Tracts for the Times from pamphlets to

SEPTEMBER 2019 Page 17 learned studies.

The late 1830s and 1840s were a wretched time for Pusey. He was suspended from preaching for two years after delivering what was considered to be a controversial sermon on the nature of the Eucharist, his infant daughter Katherine died in 1832, his wife Maria died of consumption in 1839 and his only son became a chronic invalid.

Pusey’s eldest daughter, Lucy, had expressed a desire to lead a single life dedicated to God, and her death in 1844 seems to have propelled Pusey into founding an Anglican sisterhood as part of her legacy. The Sisterhood of the Holy Cross, Regent Park, was founded in 1845. Encouraged by Pusey, the sisters at Park Village followed a gruelling pattern of daily prayer in addition to their works of mercy (so gruelling was this life, in fact, that it led to the unfortunate death of one of its sisters - Jane Ellacombe - on Christmas Day 1854).

In 1835 John Keble left Oxford University for a new life at the vicarage in Hursley. When Newman withdrew from the Oxford Movement in 1841 (and converted to Rome in 1845) Pusey effectively lost one of his closest friends, and had to assume leadership of the movement on his own. Pusey and Newman continued to correspond for the next two decades, but they did not meet again until 1865 at Keble’s house.

They met in September 1865 at Hursley Vicarage, where they dined together for the last time. It must have been an awkward meeting, for Pusey had been working on an Anglican response to the Roman Catholic convert Dr Henry (later Cardinal) Manning’s recent criticism’s of his former Church of England. Pusey’s response, intended as a gesture of peace, had been to publish a volume in which he argued that Roman Catholics were deeply in error on Purgatory, Mariolatry and Indulgences. Newman’s wry reply, published in a letter, described Pusey’s volume as rhetorical and unfair and complained to Pusey that‘you discharge your olive branch as if from a catapult’.

By the late 1870s, Pusey’s health was beginning to fail. Most of his own generation had already passed away and Pusey himself was becoming increasingly deaf. He died at Ascot Priory on 16 September 1882, and was buried in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, beside the bodies of his wife and two daughters (only one child survived him). His pall-bearers at his funeral in the Cathedral included the then Prime Minister, William Gladstone.

In his memory, his friends purchased his entire library and installed it in Pusey House, an Anglican religious institution located in St. Giles in Oxford, which was opened in 1884 as a permanent memorial to Pusey. Pusey House was designed to be a house of sacred learning, and its motto – Deus Scientiarum Dominus - means ‘Our God is a God of knowledge’.

Pusey himself remains something of an enigma: a shy, enigmatic man whose life embraced many contradictions (although he became associated with the ritualists he never had much sympathy for ritualism and was never a ritualist himself). But Dr Pusey also died as one of the most controversial and abhorred men of his age, and was lampooned mercilessly as an austere, joyless, prudish Victorian moralist; so much so, in fact, that the words ‘Puseyism’ and ‘Puseyite’ became terms of abuse.

However, Pusey’s embrace of the broader Catholic tradition introduced many elements into Anglicanism that we now take for granted. The ritualist use of vestments and wafer bread, and the lighting of candles around the altar (to name but three) have become widespread – even normative – within today’s Church of England. Page 18 SWORD Calendar of Principal Feasts and Holy Days

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1 Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710 2 The Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1901 and 1942 3 Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, Teacher of the Faith, 604 4 Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650 6 Allen Gardiner, Missionary, Founder of the South American Mission Society, 1851 8 The Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary 9 Charles Fuge Lowder, Priest, 1880 13 John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, Teacher of the Faith, 407 14 Holy Cross Day 15 Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 16 Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle of the Picts, c.432 16 Edward Bouverie Pusey, Priest, Tractarian, 1882 17 Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179 19 Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690 20 John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, and his Companions, Martyrs, 1871 21 Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist 25 Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 25 Sergei of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher of the Faith, 1392 26 Wilson Carlile, Founder of the Church Army,1942 27 Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660 29 Michael and All Angels 30 Jerome, Translator of the Scriptures, Teacher of the Faith, 420

Alternative dates Cuthbert may be celebrated on 4 September instead of 20 March.